Still here and have not had a single puff since the email!
Nice to hear from old friends, and some new ones.
It's funny how I have been so tolerant and calm during my first two weeks of stopping smoking. I have been a model of diplomacy, tact and consideration to other living things.............I just can't understand why only the dog will talk to me........if fact, everyone else in the house has apparently emigrated or left for destinations unknown. I occasionally find the odd note telling me to put my dirty laundry in the bin or to mow the grass, but I have no idea where these come from, or indeed, who has left them.
Seeking some company, I popped out to the pub the other evening. It is a thriving place, usually milling with people. The landlord looked at me as I walked into the bar and started to sob quietly into his hands, he was muttering something about people being driven away by a monster and not being able to pay the bills.
The economy in the local area seems to have taken a nose-dive. As I walk past shops and businesses, they seem to pull down the shutters and hang closed signs in the window as I approach. People are obviously scared, as I see them peeking out from behind curtains, looking for all the world as if they have spotted a crazed lunatic with a fire axe.
Still, I'm happy. I've all but stopped coughing and wheezing in the mornings. My sense of smell has returned and I can now tell the difference between a fine red wine and the washing-up water. Things taste like they did when I was a child and I have not had to go to the cash-point for ages.
Oh...........gosh, all my family have just re-appeared.......they are staying strange things like "welcome back", and "its nice to get a human being back", and my wife has just kissed me and given me a hug! Can't imagine what has been going on
Mad englishMan
